Intergalactic Mixtape is live! It was an interesting bookish week on my slice of the internet.

This is a great thread. Based on Kameron’s knowledge I’ve changed how I engage in short form video content with the advice she outlined. I also don’t do outrage much anymore! Once you start asking “who wants my money and attention (the 21st century currency) in this scenario?” the grift reveals~~~

I have cleaned my desk!! I regret to report that as soon as I did my extremely hairy cat hopped right back up and deposited fresh hairs. :D

absolutely love this Kai Ashante Wilson essay on longing for Black, queer SFF cover art and the difficulties of the cover art process in traditional publishing

Intergalactic Mixtape is always great (thanks @renay.bsky.social) but I particularly enjoyed today's because it made me read this review by skygiants of The Raven Scholar, which both identified a lot of the things I also struggled with, AND made me giggle.

How can I read all the books I want to read, but at the same time??? My "omg I'm excited for this" stack is out of control.

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! It was an interesting bookish week on my slice of the internet.

I can confirm my elderly cat will be patient until around 2am. After that, she gets annoyed. 2am is the hard deadline for my 16 year old tortie who literally slept ALL DAY.

Finished reading S. L. Huang’s “The Language of Liars” during my lunch break and GOSH what an unexpected, thorny, and compelling little book!

working on the newsletter, crying: please get a blog or a tumblr or a newsletter or something instead of writing a thread, my brain is melting 😂

How much of the popularity of newsletters stems from the fact that you open them in your inbox and thus they can't have a million popup ads and autoplaying videos covering up all the text

Short and sweet reviews of three recent reads: 📔 The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale by CM Waggoner 📔The Light Between Apple Trees by Priyanka Kumar 📔Nell O'Dell Hates Quests by Emily B. Martin bysinginglight.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/s...

My elderly cat has decided she has a bedtime now and I'M apparently a part of it. Guess my ADHD bedtime procrastination habit needs to end. 😂

Notes from a Regicide is $2.99 in all ebook formats through the 26th. Celebrate Pride with a whole family of hot messes raving about oil painting! All the streets in New York are canals in the future, so they can't march; you have to do it for them. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I fear this means I’m obligated to buy a new book. 😈

I wrote about The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang by contrasting my love of it with a critique of its worldbuilding. Ro is my fave new protagonist of 2026 and it's not even close. He's the most cheerful thing in a cascading revelation of Horrors. 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/06/15/l...

This is how I learned about the political update of the day and I keep coming back to it and cackling.

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And here we are at the end of the exercise. The Queersar Not An Award for excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers 2024! It's been fun, & I hope you find something new that's slipped between the cracks. The book I spotlight in this list is the most shamefully under-read of the whole exercise.

“What if Guy Gavriel Kay did gay romantasy?” I’d read a lot more of his work even WITH the inevitable tragedy.

Intergalactic Mixtape is live and we finally have some spicy Book Discourse. Thank you, Clarke Award? 😅 I also caught up my Tolkien re-reads and read a ton of reviews!

Strange Horizons fund-drive update: we're currently at 190 backers, and 60% funded towards are base goal. Let's get to 200 backers, and our next milestone - $14K - which is when we'll be able to release a fantastic essay on fungi in SFF. Back us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

My Locus review of @slhuang.com ‘s brilliant The Language of Liars is now online and free to read! locusmag.com/review/the-l...

I and lots of other people are finalists this year and it would be nifty for you to check out our stuff and maybe vote for it if you like it. There's a whole "Hugo reader packet" that comes with membership to help with that.

anyway, like we were saying when we warned that, as always, execs would learn the complete wrong lesson www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

House of Leaves Cinematic Universe

Literally just finished the audio book of The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com and when I tell you I cried buckets, I am not exaggerating. Highly highly recommend this stunning work. And, speaking as a voice actor and director, the audio performance was perfect!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

A reminder that if you back Common Bonds 3, you can add bundles of books as addons (money split between the campaign and authors). I'm in the previous Common Bonds authors bundle with Avi Silver, E.H. Timms and S.M. Pearce. All the aromantic stories!

Reveal time! Cover + TOC for FIYAH Issue #39, Black Kishōtenketsu: fiyahlitmag.com/2026/06/16/f...

You can vote on the Hugo Awards, even if you're not attending the con. It's a WSFS-only membership at this link, and it gets you access to the Hugo Voter packet (some great SFF ebooks) And I just want to say, please vote for us. This year, we don't want to lose by 19 votes (we're gonna lose by ONE)

The owner of Pinboard ran afoul of "automatic" renewal for the domain (which I have also done before, no shade). He fixed it, but it's still not back up for me, so I'm slightly panicked about the future of the service. 😅

I wrote about The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang by contrasting my love of it with a critique of its worldbuilding. Ro is my fave new protagonist of 2026 and it's not even close. He's the most cheerful thing in a cascading revelation of Horrors. 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/06/15/l...

it's 🌶️ spicy 🌶️

Continuing my campaign to get everyone to start a blog again, I recced several things hosted on blogs! Intergalactic Mixtape is live. 🥳

A reminder: Strange Horizons has no external funding, and runs entirely on community funding, through the fund-drive. Quite literally, our future is in your hands. We hope to be with you for our 27th year. Support us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I love going to the bookstore and saying hello to the books I love. It can be rare to find those books on shelves sometimes!

Single Syllable Symphony: for this month's Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at language and worldbuilding in Rebecca Gransden’s FIGURES CROSSING THE FIELD TOWARDS THE GROUP (Tangerine Press)

✨ Happy Pride! ✨ Read my weird gay books so I can write weirder, gayer books! 🌈📖 The Prey of Gods: Gay teen gets superpowers and teams up with his robot to save the world. Escaping Exodus: Heir to a space matriarchy falls in love with her working class BFF. Maybe some tentacle things happen. 🐙

Continuing my campaign to get everyone to start a blog again, I recced several things hosted on blogs! Intergalactic Mixtape is live. 🥳

happy friday, ADHD havers

telling myself I will live long enough to read all the books I buy is probably my most optimistic belief

Reviewers on Reviewing: @chloroformtea.bsky.social discusses positivity, negativity, and criticism with reviewers & bloggers @mollytempleton.com, @runalongwomble.bsky.social, @forestofglory.bsky.social, and @casella.bsky.social

nancy mace won't see you dunking on her for eating beans but your bean pervert friends (me) will

What I'm learning is that all the professors who told me I would be bad at the practice of law were full of garbage.

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

May reading review is (finally!) up bysinginglight.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/m...

Intergalactic Mixtape #56 is live, with a review round up for some of the Locus Award winners and a bouquet of new book lists.

I need everyone to read this book and then tell me their theory of the resolution, the more unhinged the better. I crave Theories and Speculation and yes, maybe even…fanfic.